Boxing Day

After feeling a little dejected at having a very green Christmas day we awoke on Boxing Day to find this...

Nat, Mike, Mom and Dad then left to take Mike to Ottawa airport so he could fly out to Urbana, where he was playing. Daniel and I stayed behind and took Phoenix out in the snow...

and then we took Kira for a walk, and a quick run around the baseball diamond across the street...


In the afternoon we headed to Fairview the shopping centre to spend our Christmas money and as you can expect it was packed with boxing day bargin shoppers.... then later in the evening we went to catch up with the Wilsons which was lovely.

Christmas Day

So since we were all here and having Christmas I thought that I'd take some pics of our day. I think that everyone is now pretty full from lunch, Natty and Mom are sleeping and Daniel and Dad are in the basement playing Mario cart and Mike had to go out to collect some stuff ready for his trip to Urbana tomorrow.

I think think this evening we will be eating apple pie and ice cream (cus we were so full from lunch we didn't eat the dessert) and then we will play both Clue (Nat's new game) and Monopoly (the bristol edition, which is Dad's)....

We move in to our house on the 1st Jan (a week today) so I'll post some pics of that once we have an internet connection... Here are some pictures from today...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

With things slowly winding down for "that time of the year" I thought that whilst I had the chance I would write a very quick message to wish anyone and everyone who reads this a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Daniel & I will be in Montreal for Christmas with Nat & Mike, and Mom & Dad (who are driving up from the States on Saturday). I will try to get some pictures posted of our first of many Christmases in Canada, and if you take any pictures of yours please email them on...

Take care, and if I don't post again this year I'll definately do it at the start of next year.

Gill x (& Daniel)

Week 3...

Unfortunatly not a lot to report this week.... Daniel is in to his first full week of Canadian Employment and although the hours are not really all that socialble I think he is enjoying it. Tomorrow I start work too (Whoohoo!!!) for a company not far from where we are living at the moment (which is about to change so stay posted!) and I cannot wait to finally be out of the house for a reason other than to pass the time of day - I was starting to go stir crazy but have been revived again now as tomorrow draws near...

I am worried about one thing though... my hours will be from 8am - 5pm (so I will leave the house at about 7:20ish - so I'll be up at about 6.20ish...) and Daniel's are officially 10.45 - 8pm however he usually gets up at about 7.30am and gets home about 10pm.... so there is quite a high possibility that we might not actually see each other for most of the week.... and just get to catch up on the weekends. This will be quite strange as we have not actually been apart for apporx the last 4 weeks!

So yeah apart from the work thing we went to see a rental house yesterday that we have filled in an application to take. Its not somewhere that I really love but it is clean, has all new appliances and since we don't want to spend the money that we want to put into a new house in a years or so's time, I know that its going to be functional... I'll send pictures once a) I've taken some and b) I have an internet connection hooked up.

Okay I think thats all our news for now... Will try to write again soon but will probably be towards the end of the week..

Gill x

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this weekend we're in Montreal for a bit of a break from all of the things that we have been sorting out this last week and today the heavens have opened and there is approx 3" of snow on the ground!!! whoohoo!!!
Nat and I are going to go out in it for a bit, probably take Kira for a walk, and also Nat wants to put out this raindeer thing that they have so... I'll put more pictures once we've done that... for now, here are a few I took earlier :)

Landed (Pics)

So after we landed last saturday evening Nat and Jacqueline whisked us away to the house where we are staying to drop off our stuff but then we went to see the cirque de soleil (sp?) but we kinda forgot to take pictures during the show as it was kinda dark so here are some pictures at approx 10pm Canadian time (3AM!! english time! - check out the bags under the eyes!!!)